Lighting unit



A. L. M CABE LIGHTING UNIT Nov. 22, 1932.

2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed May 15. 1931 :nqbfi K "YATTDRNEILF A. -L. M CABE LIGHTING UNIT Nov. 22, 1932.

Filed May 15, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Nov. 22, 1932 ANTHONY L. McCABE, or 'uEw'roNvir-LE, iuieisshoHUsnr rs; iiss suoit ro ELECTRIC. CQMPAHYQOF BOSTON, IvI ASSACI I'USETTS.

GHUSETTS Application filed May 15, his;

The present invention relates to lighting units designed especially for use in hospitals and which maybe used for lighting a bedside table or for low intensity indirect general illumination ofthe room merely by changing the position of an adjustable visor.

My invention comprises a casing which may ing in the front wall thereof, which front wall may be a removable face plate,and a visor pivotally connected to said front? wall and co-extensive longitudinally with said.

opening, together with a friction lock or other suitable means for securing said visor in its uppermost position to reflect the light rays downwardly upon a bedside table or in its lowermost position to reflect'said light rays within the wallbox. r I

Pivot-ally connected to the front wall of the casing which'in this particular-instance upwardly for indirect In the drawings which accompany. form a part'of this specification- Figure 1 is a front elevationof a lighting general illumination. and

unit involving my invention the visor being shown in its uppermost position;

Fig. 2 is an end 'view' of said unit Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line83 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is avertical-transverse section, the

visor being shown in itslowermost position;

- Fig. 5 is a fragmentary end-view of the interior of the wallbox, certain parts being shown in section. V

In the particular drawings selected" for 1 more fully disclosing the principle of my invention, 10 represents a casing or wall box arranged to be, received in an aperture in thewall 11 and provided with are'movableface plate 12 secured thereto in any suitable mans,

by means of the screws ner'as for example, 13 and the lugs l i. V H The face plate is provided with an' elongatedopening' 15, alongthe reaiwardedg'es of which are arranged brackets 16 for receiving a diffusion glass 17 tosoften the light dis tribution and prevent is shown as the removable face plate-12, is

a visor 18 which is co-extensive longitudinal-. ly with the aperture 15 and almost, but not LIGHT NG} lm'r be a wall boxhaving an elongated open-.

the collection of. dust co-egt'ensive f therewith In thepre's'ent instance saidwi'soris shown aspivoted to thelugs 19 which projcctfrom the} face jplate'near. theirespectivefends' of. j j the? aperture 15 and substantially "midway 1 betweenthe upper and lower limitsthereof.

hen the visor is in its uppermostposition as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the light rays passing tion, as shown in Fig, 4, said rays will be refrom the, lamp 20 through the I diffusion glass willbe reflected downwardly, and when said visor is in" its lowermost posifiected upwardly. Any suitablemeans may I be employed. to maintain the visor, in itstwo positions. In the present instance I' haveindicated slight. projections 21' formed in F the respective ends of the visorand co-o'perating depressions 22-formed in theadjacent faces of the lugs visor in its adjusted position.-

It will be obvious that when 'myiumt is used be illuminated by placingthe visor in its uppermost position. for administering to the i l a glare in theatin a hospitah'the patients bedsidetable may patient withoutjcreating tendants eyes; and that when thevisor is placed in its lowermost position, a.;soft'indirectlight for general illuminationis provided without glare. 1 1

-While various means may securing the socket '23 to the. wall. box,

prefer to use the plate 24 towhioh the socket 19, the natural elasticity of the visor which is preferably made of pressed steel causing each saidproj ection to snap into its co-operating recess in orderito holdwthe' gso be'employed f0; t

is attached and ,which is'providedwith'a slot arrangement-the socketmay convenientlybe i I.

attached to the wall box and quickly removed therefrom'whenever desired, 28 is a switch of any suit ble type, f or"in-" fHaving'thus shown in Fig. 5) having an elongated por- 1 t'ion 251andan enlarged endpo'rtion 26, the 1 r j screw 27. whichitakes into the endzwa'll of the casingbeing small enough freely-to pass through the end 26 of'the diameter larger than thewidth of the elon- *gated' portion 25. By means of this locking slot, but having stance, a toggleiswitch secured to the face 'plate for controlling the lamp described an illustrative ein-r519 bodiment of my invention without however I limiting the same'thereto, What I claim and "'desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1 J a A lighting unit comprising in combination V a wall b0x,;a face-plate having aneelongated Opening therein,means for securing said facev plate tosaicl wall box, a'visorvconstructed and r 7 arranged tov .refle'ct the light downwardly" when in its uppermost position and upward 1 01 lywhen'in its lowennost positieh, "saidlv'i-soi' "beingfe exten's'ive longitudinally" said V j ,0pening and Withthegreaten 'pbrtion there I 'of transversely means pivotally connecting f flySfiidYlSOI' to the exterionof said face-plate I 15 substantially midway betweenthelupper and f lowerlimits of saidnpeningand means fpn a I V f maintainingsai'dlvisor initsupperinost and 1 Y lowermost'positions." v .M h s In testimony whereofyl have hereunto sublmscribed m name thlS 1lth day of May, 1931. a f ANTHONY L. MGOABE.

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